These audio samples are intended to demonstrate Motivational Interviewing skills. The individuals in each interview include the author (Dr. Jim Walsh) and three students, who are role-playing the part of a young woman recently diagnosed with Alcohol Dependence With Physiological Dependence. In the vignette she was treated in a detox unit and then experienced a 28 day residential treatment.
In the first interview the patient is being seen for a first visit in an Intensive Outpatient (IO) facility. Here’s the audio track:
In the second interview the patient is being seen for a second visit at the IOP. Here’s the audio track:
In the third interview the patient is being seen for a third visit at the IOP. Here’s the audio track:
One final note, I’ve used the first names of the students playing the role in each interview, but the intention is to illustrate working with a single patient in order to demonstrate therapeutic progress in motivational factors. So don’t be thrown off by the different first names used in each interview; it was simply easier to keep in the role by doing so.
My thanks to the three students, Nan, Monica, and Megan, who gave generously by immersing themselves into this role playing exercise.
James M. Walsh Pastoral Counseling 